HOLOCAUST ART – AN ESSENTIAL TOOL FOR THE METHODOLOGY OF CONSTRUCTING A HISTORICAL NARRATIVE
International Workshop within the Framework of the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI), supported by the European Commission Yad Vashem, Jerusalem 9-11 February, 2015
Sunday, February 8 18:00–19:00 Registraton at hotel Informal gathering and drinks
Monday, February 9 Room 301 Internatonal School for Holocaust Studies
08:30 Bus leaving for Yad Vashem
09:00–09:15 Welcome and opening remarks Avner Shalev Chairman of the Directorate, Yad Vashem Jerusalem
09:15–10:00 Keynote lecture: Felt Facts: The Role of Art and Culture in the Holocaust Gallery at POLIN Museum Barbara Kirschenblat-Gimblet Program Director, Core Exhibiton, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw, Poland
10:00–10:15 Introducton to EHRI Haim Gertner Director, Archive Division Fred Hillman Chair of Holocaust Documentaton, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem Executve Commitee, EHRI
1 10:15–11:45 Session I Setng the Stage: Art and the Historical Context Moderator: Inka Bertz
10:15–10:35 Loss of Metaphors 1937–1947: Art amidst the Catastrophe – Life and Recepton of the Jewish artst Marian Ruzamski Jürgen Kaumköter Curator, Centre for Persecuted Arts, Art Museum Solingen, Germany Curator, central exhibiton of the German Bundestag commemoratng the 70th Anniversary of the Auschwitz liberaton 10:35–10:55 Aporias of the Visual? Seeing Extremis Glenn Sujo artst, educator, writer, curator Wingate post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Courtauld Insttute of Art, London, UK
10:55–11:15 Between Legend and Reality—The Use of Fairy Tales in Holocaust Art Orit Margaliot Center for Research on the Holocaust in Poland, Internatonal Insttute for Holocaust Research, Yad Vashem; Desk Head in the European Department, Internatonal School for Holocaust Studies, Yad Vashem, Israel
11:15–11:45 Discussion
11:45–12:00 Cofee Break
12:00–13:00 Guided Tour of the Yad Vashem Museum of Holocaust Art
13:00– 14:00 Lunch Break 14:00–15:50 Session II The Language of Art: The Hidden Testmony Moderator: Eliad Moreh-Rosenberg Curator and Art Department Director, Museums Division, Yad Vashem, Israel
14:00–14:20 The History Behind the Faces – What the Portraits Teach Us Eliad Moreh-Rosenberg Curator and Art Department Director, Museums Division, Yad Vashem, Israel
14:20–14:40 From Visions of Persecuton to Documentng Holocaust:The Communist and Jewish Artst Lea Grundig and her Works between 1933 to 1966 Eva Atlan Curator and Head of Art and Judaica Collecton, Jüdisches Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
14:40–15:00 Drawing in Theresienstadt – Contextualizing Bedřich Frita Inka Bertz Head of Collectons /Art Curator, Jüdisches Museum Berlin, Germany
15:00–15:20 Another Kind of Document: Examining Felix Nussbaum's Art Created during the Holocaust Sura Levine
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15:20–15:50 Discussion
15:50–16:00 Cofee Break
16:00–17:30 Session III The Artsts as Recorders of History Moderator: Rachel Perry Lecturer, MA Program in Holocaust Studies, Haifa University, Israel
16:00–16:20 "A Stcky Spot of Crime…" – Rethinking Art History in Poland Luiza Nader Asst. Prof. Insttute of the History of Art, University of Warsaw, Poland
16:20–16:40 Voices from a Hidden History: Common Denominators and Recurrent Motfs in the Work of Jewish Artsts in Romania, who Witnessed or Fell Victms to the Holocaust Valentna Iancu Curator, Natonal Museum of Art of Romania, Bucharest, Romania
16:40–17:00 Expanding the Perspectve on Holocaust Art: The Female Experience during the Holocaust in Women's Art Mor Presiado Department of Jewish Art, Faculty of Jewish Studies, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
17:00–17:30 Discussion
3 Tuesday, February 10 Room 301 Internatonal School for Holocaust Studies
08:30 Bus leaving for Yad Vashem
09:00–10:45 Session IV Investgaton into Art – Building a Methodology Moderator: Michael Tal Director of the Artfacts Department, Museums Division, Yad Vashem
09:00–09:20 The Database "Degenerate Art" at FU Berlin – On the Trail of Provenances and a lost Cultural Identty Meike Hofmann Project Coordinator "Degenerate Art, Department of Art History, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
09:20–09:40 A Birthday Card from Auschwitz- An Illustrated Artfact as an Historical Document Sara Shor Collectons Manager, Artfacts Department, Museums Division, Yad Vashem, Israel
09:40–10:00 In Search of the “Holocaust by Bullets” Art Roma Sendyka Asst. Professor, Director of the Research Center for Memory Cultures, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland
10:00-10:20 Reclaiming Life from Oblivion: Informaton Mechanics vis-à-vis the Holocaust – The Internatonal Archive of Holocaust Art and the Artst File Niv Goldberg Art Collecton Manager, Museums Division, Yad Vashem, Israel
10:20–10:45 Discussion
10:45–11:00 Cofee Break 11:00–13:00 Guided Tour of Yad Vashem Museum (Guide: Liz Elsby) 13:00–14:00 Lunch Break
14:00–16:45 Session V Integraton of Art in the Narratve of Museums Moderator: Yehudit Inbar, Museums Division Director, Yad Vashem
14:00–14:20 Marking the War, Commemoratng the Shoah: The Recepton of Charlote Salomon's "Leben oder Theater" in its Context Joël Cahen Director, Joods Historisch Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
14:20–14:40 Examining Art: Curatorial Directons at the Gheto Fighters' House Museum Evelin Akherman Director, Museum Division, Gheto Fighters' House (Beit Lohamei Haghetaot), Israel
4 14:40–15:00 “Try to Look in Order to See”: Visual Culture in the Holocaust Museum Rachel Perry Lecturer, MA Program in Holocaust Studies, Haifa University, Israel
15:00–15:20 From Eye-Witness Testmony to Technical Reconstructon – Scale Models of the Gas Chambers/Crematoria Tomasz Łysak Assistant Professor, University of Warsaw, Poland
15:20–15:35 Cofee Break
15:35–15:55 The Integraton of Art in the Narratve of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Kyra Schuster Curator, Art and Artfacts, United States Holocaust Museum and Memorial, USA
15:55–16:15 Against Amnesia: the Jewish Museum in Prague’s Visual Art Collecton as a Memory Glyph Michaela Sidenberg Curator of Visual Arts, Jewish Museum in Prague, Czech Republic
16:15–16:45 Discussion
19:30 Dinner for all invited Partcipants - Canela Restaurant (Shlomzion Hamalka St. 8, +972-2-622-2293) Bus from Hotel at 19:00
5 Wednesday, February 11 Room 301 Internatonal School for Holocaust Studies
08:30 Bus leaving for Yad Vashem
09:00–10:45 Session VI Looted Art – Reconstructng the Nazi Art Confscaton Apparatus Moderator: Yehudit Shendar Retred Deputy Director and Senior Art Curator, Museums Division, Yad Vashem; Provenance Research Project, Yad Vashem Archives
09:00–09:20 Art Confscaton and the Final Soluton: the Singularity of the Nazi Lootng Apparatus Yehudit Shendar Retred Deputy Director and Senior Art Curator, Museums Division, Yad Vashem; Provenance Research Project, Yad Vashem Archives
09:20–09:40 The Mechanism of Plunder of Jewish-owned Art in Krakow, the Capitol of the Generalgouvernement Agnieszka Yass-Alston Jewish Studies Insttute, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
09:40–10:00 Outlining the Kümmel Report: Between German Natonality and Aesthetcs Shlomit Steinberg Hans Dichand Senior Curator of European Art, Edmond and Lily Safra Fine Arts Wing Israel Museum, Israel
10:00–10:20 Provenance Research and Resources at American Insttutons: Collaboraton Leads to Results Jane Milosch Director, Smithsonian Provenance Research Initatve, Ofce the Under Secretary for History, Art, and Culture, Smithsonian Insttuton, Washington, D.C. USA
10:20–10:45 Discussion
10:45–11:00 Cofee Break
11:00–12:00 Session VII Summary and Conclusion Round Table: all partcipants Moderators: Haim Gertner, Yehudit Shendar, Eliad Moreh
12:00–13:00 Lunch Break
13:00 Bus leaving for Israel Museum (for invited partcipants)
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